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01:36:20 syv: Hello people, and
Piecewise.
01:36:55 ER: Discord has a spoiler function now and it's disappointingly useless!
01:37:02 syv: I do wonder what's inspired Dubs to start hanging out here again.
01:37:38 syv: I prefer Chaos to Discord. Discord is a pain to use and broadly just too smooth to be robust.
01:37:39 ER: I was hoping it was like forum spoilers but even if you stick an image in spoiler tags it takes up the same amount of space....
01:37:59 syv: I'm guessing it's just for literal spoilers?
01:38:02 ER: because Discord devs don't respect your screen space >:(
01:38:48 syv: I fucked with the Android app to downscale everything so I could have a reasonable amount of text onscreen.
01:38:57 ER: and it's not like any of the jerks in bonezone will bother with spoiling literal spoilers. :P
01:39:38 syv: It used to work flawlessly, but one of their updates broke avatars for me, now the images aren't downscaled, but the circles *are*, so I only see the upper left corners of profile pics.
01:39:57 syv: The bonezone just sounds like an unpleasant place.
01:40:18 syv: Which is consistent with my few visits.
01:40:47 ER: Perhaps you have less shitposting tolerence than me
01:42:06 syv: They're aptly named, and that makes them something I'd rather stay far away from.
01:42:43 ER: in fact I think you get pissed off at things in general much more easilly than me
01:43:02 syv: ...Well, yes. I am a very angry individual.
01:43:34 syv: I just try to avoid venting that anger at people, so I don't come off as bad as the trolls who are more known for it.
01:44:24 syv: Is the Tacgical Hell test done?
01:44:56 ER: next update may be about the end of it
01:45:29 syv: It's likely just talking from hereon, and the talking doesn't really matter, though I'd like to hear more about the setting. And about that body.
02:00:58 ER: Ah, I should specifically mention that that body is alive
02:04:28 syv: Oh? Thaaat's important. Bound, or just unconscious?
02:04:51 syv: What kind of shape are they in?
02:21:58 syv: ...Oh. Well, I'm probably murdering all of them, then. Still gonna talk with Ari for a bit first, I can kill him after picking his brain, and asking about the bound guy I guess.
02:23:43 ER: sounds like I successfully got you to murder all my lovingly-created characters
02:23:58 ER: I gave them last names and everything!
02:25:07 syv: Don't you read OotS? They've gotta state their last names to be protected by them!
02:25:34 syv: But yeah he's gonna have to have a damn good excuse for binding and harming a person.
02:25:34 ER: It won't protect them anyway
02:25:57 syv: My current guess is cannibalism, which is pretty fair TBH.
02:27:23 ER: I guess I can imagine that all humans get a base of 3 Determination because they think they're the protaganist. :P
02:27:38 ER: *they* know their own last names
02:33:52 Piecewise_: I found a perfect recipe for
Sy.
02:39:32 syv: I think I'd prefer a nice flavoring with a 12 gauge pepperdust round. Revolvers just have too much iron in them to be healthy.
02:59:01 syv: Oh,
Piecewise_. Precisely how do use die work in MOOK?
02:59:31 Piecewise_: I have already written an explanation and placed it at the front of the turn I am working on right now.
02:59:44 Piecewise_: If that doesn't explain it well enough, lemme know when it comes out
02:59:47 ER: I'm pretty sure use die are supposed to work so that when you roll a 1 or 2 the die goes down a "level" ro something dumb like that~
03:00:14 syv: Could you please paste said explanation here, so I can edit it into my post before you get to post the turn?
03:00:46 syv: If I were making it, it'd be -1 die size every time it's used, and it's lost on a 1.
03:00:54 Piecewise_: Its actually a bit more complex than that. Use dice are a fairly common mechanic in the greater RPG world and work like this: The use die is rolled whenever the object is used (In this case when the weapon is fired). If a 1 or a 2 is rolled, then the use die is reduced to the next lowest level. So if my use die is a d8, then when I use an item I roll a d8. If I get a 1 or 2 then the die is reduced to a d6. If I get 1 or 2
03:00:54 Piecewise_: again, then it is reduced to a d4. If I get a 1 or 2 again, then the item runs out of uses. Each reduction in die size makes the chance of rolling the 1 or 2 higher and thus speeds the depletion of the item.
03:01:27 syv: Whenever I see that emoticon, with the slant nearly touching the eye, I visualize the poster of it licking their eye.
03:01:50 ER: So adding more levels to your dice makes it "last" exponentially longer...
03:02:15 syv: Ah. And that means you can't just waste all your ammo at once in a single turn.
03:31:07 ER: the great-granddaughter of a necromancer starts a mercenary company deticated to worhshipping the god of death by using axes and maces
03:32:09 ER: and made a chapel-fortress which pilgrims of the death god visit
03:35:10 syv: And, appropriately, they all died.
03:35:54 ER: ...and huh, you can have mercenaries who worship death and mercenaries who are sneaky and do assassainations, so the dark brotherhood is not theoretically possible in DF. :P
03:36:41 Devastator: death worshippers aren't mercenaries..
03:37:44 Devastator: Mercenaries work for money.
03:38:10 ER: No reason why death worshippers can't work for money
03:38:27 Devastator: Aww, only one baby for Anaconda. ;-p
03:38:37 Devastator: I thought you were trying for volume!
03:40:10 ER: Crusaders are in it for the Deus Vult *and* for the silver
03:40:39 Devastator: Usually just the silver. ;-p
03:41:32 ER: well, they can "say" they're in it for the Deus Vult and it still counts as worfshipping :P
03:42:18 ER: I mean, I *was* expecting a LITTLE bit more from the effort of two minor gods and the total expendature of 6 power.
03:42:19 Devastator: Or just give 10% of the loot to the temple.
03:42:48 ER:
Piecewise_, did you miss that I was spending 3 power on reproduction?
03:43:12 ER: Because that really should have been either two rolls each with a +2 or one roll with a +3
03:43:13 Devastator: You did get the +2. Must have meant a more powerful offspring instead of quantity.
03:44:07 ER: if you missed it I gotta take my power back :P
03:56:43 Devastator: Well, try not to starve in the entropic universe.
03:56:48 Devastator: I wonder who started it?
03:57:20 ER: surely it's not the demon of entropy
03:57:42 ER: who we for some reason have given the position of major god
03:58:24 Devastator: you could dethrone that god.
03:59:06 ER: I just used all my power, now I'm begging it from a demi
04:00:24 Devastator: you might be able to get some by eating living creatures to force them to give it up to you.
04:00:29 Devastator: Would that be possible?
04:00:53 ER: Probably? Not reliable, though.
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05:00:14 ER: I really don't know what the point of use die as a mechanic is, though. seems counter-productive
05:00:51 Devastator: "Or fortifications."
05:00:51 ER: makes it harder to check how much of something you have left, because each level is worth more than the last
05:01:21 ER: would be better to just roll a d6 every time and when you roll a 1 you lose one level of the thing
05:02:47 ER: it also means that if you can use a resource to bring a use die up one level, it's worth much more uses if you pile it all into one thing rather than spreading it out.
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05:16:03 MJ: I'm a punctual cool cat, always early, never late.
05:26:40 MJ: nothing much. just relaxing today. Got done with a test and a project
05:40:41 Devastator: Lots of facepalming.
05:41:57 Devastator: various issues that would be better suited for a comedy than real life.
05:43:06 Devastator: Supervisor who is all "I know nuzzing!" boss' boss who is irritated by me not knowing everything after two days, and getting trained by someone who is deaf and mute.
05:43:33 MJ: heh, literally or figuratively?
05:45:35 Devastator: the figurative bit was the first one.
05:45:39 Devastator: although not by much.
05:45:54 Devastator: actually, the third guy is really nice and competent, but it doesn't help.
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05:53:51 MJ: What's the job if you don't mind me asking
06:01:30 Devastator: I'll tell you in a couple of weeks, when I know.
06:04:51 Devastator: (There's a wide range in potential duties. And hopefully salary.)
06:05:43 ER: sounds confusing and distressing
06:06:57 ER: it's called "wage" for normal people :V
06:10:25 Devastator: reading the mook turn.
06:11:39 Devastator: ..Wow,
PW didn't roll to kill me.
06:12:26 ER: he rolled to kill ME, and I was walking down a hall...
06:14:43 MJ: Maybe a hall killed his family
06:47:38 MJ: Hmm, anyone got any plans for the month?
06:48:00 ER: "hopefully get a job maybe"
07:24:20 MJ: I also can't figure out if the figure is male or female
07:25:38 MJ: Like I think it's male but I can't say with 100% certainty
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12:12:45 ER: "Ace Combat 7 is the best JRPG so far this year."
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12:56:03 syv: Figure looks like it's deliberately androgynous, but I think I'd go with female. The jaw shape is fairly feminine, as are the very define pouty lips. Plus the shaved head is generally considered masculine, which should make it come off as more male, and it *still* looks androgynous to me.
12:57:10 syv: Hi. Good morning to you, too. Been up all night?
12:58:32 ER: ...maybe other people aren't willing to watch a half hour devlog for a game they've never seen before. Oh, whatever
12:59:20 syv: He's fighting a growing blob?
12:59:25 ER: it's an RTS versus a liquid
12:59:44 syv: ...It actually does look fairly interesting.
13:00:12 ER: It's a mostly-unintelegant liquid blob which grows and flows
13:00:27 ER: and you need to use turrets and such to push it back
13:00:48 syv: Seems like it could get stale very wuick.
13:01:34 ER: Yeah, it is kinda a game where you stuggle to get set up, then just sip coffee while PURGING THE UNCLEAN for a while
13:01:57 ER: though a lot of the things shown off in those
dev logs make it more interesting
13:02:29 ER: enemies which come from the creeper and try to stun your units and crop creeper on you from above
13:02:49 ER: which forces you to consider how to get the resources for air defences
13:03:22 ER: there's the differently colored creeper, which comes from a structure somewhere in that mass
13:04:23 ER: that stuff is much TOUGHER for weapons fire to break through, and it also goes with the flow of the creeper, so you get that stuff heading towards wherever you're creating negative pressure.
13:05:05 syv: Do you start with the whole map except those islands consumed?
13:06:05 ER: you can also move your units around, but they can't shoot unless they're hooked up to your grid. you can make distant bases though, by making "porter" drones which make crates of energy and fly them to a specific location.
13:06:41 ER: I don't know what the starting conditions are for that map because the only video of it he starts partway in. :P
13:07:19 ER: Generally you have some creeper lying around to start with, and it expands faster than you can.
13:07:20 syv: He's saying that he started where he did to protect some trees, which are low, so he must not have had the map fully consumed.
13:08:04 ER: Depending on the map, you might have most of it covered in an ocean of creeper with you on a little island
13:09:21 syv: This reminds me of a stupid zombie survival tower defense game I played a long time ago. After awhile, the zombies would get so thick that they'd just be a solid wave coming in from all directions, which was held back by a bunch of machine guns and missiles that pretty much created a continual explosion of blood around the perimeter of the base.
13:09:42 syv: It was a stupid and boring game, but I had really enjoyed just sitting and watching that.
13:10:49 ER: Of course there are 3 other creeper world games before that one, but they're all 2d
13:11:49 ER: And I just really like the way that 4 looks and feels in that one video, with mortars flying around and the rockets and the creeper wiggling and making huge waves
13:53:17 ER: Not entirely sure how to proceed with Tactical Hell, actually.
13:56:04 syv: I was figuring it would just end upon me either leaving, allying, or dying.
13:56:33 ER: just specifically how the conversation should play out
14:11:39 ER: so I wrote something else instead
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18:46:49 MJ: Heh, so I've got to watch this documntary for a class. The funny part is that our professor just gave us a clearly pirated youtube link of said documentary.
18:56:21 MJ: Yup, honestly it's not a bad documentary.
18:59:18 MJ: It's just the sorta standard one on Darwin.
19:11:59 Piecewise_: what are you studying?
19:14:09 MJ: The class is biological anthropology. My majors are Microbiology and anthropology.
19:16:24 MJ: I'm pre med which is the main reason I'm torturing myself. ~
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19:39:37 MJ: hahaha, and it just randomlly freezes midway through to mess with the detection algorithm.
20:08:51 MJ: how are things going for you dubs?
20:11:15 Piecewise_: Doing a paper about a thing that I hate
20:11:59 Piecewise_: Executive Management
20:12:28 Piecewise_: an entirely worthless class they require me to take as part of a applied science degree for no reason
20:12:53 Piecewise_: Also its a goddamn 2-3 page analysis
20:12:54 MJ: None of those things you just said make any sense.
20:13:45 Piecewise_: [insert AM hate speech here]
20:14:06 MJ: It is a classic hate speech.
20:24:56 MJ: heh, that this looks entertaining
20:26:08 MJ: CDDA the entire apoalypse hits and all it does is take out New england
20:29:29 Piecewise_: the only place that matters
20:31:54 MJ: I suppose if you talk to a patriots fan that's true
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